AB 2369 — Electricity: energy storage: energy-only resources.

Summary

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the PUC to adopt a process for each load-serving entity to file an integrated resource plan, and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and the Independent System Operator (ISO) , to determine if there is a need for the procurement of eligible energy resources based on a review of the integrated resource plans. This bill would require the PUC, when requiring procurement of resources under an integrated resource plan, to account for the ability of energy-only resources to achieve required clean energy deployment rates, to charge storage resources during off-peak periods, and to increase resource diversity, and would require the PUC to enable energy-only resources to satisfy procurement requirements to the maximum extent feasible. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission, to provide transmission-focused guidance to the ISO about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources, as specified, to allow the ISO to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers. This bill would require the PUC and the Energy Commission to identify cost-effective opportunities to enable planned or operating energy-only resources to obtain deliverability through transmission capacity expansions, and to request the ISO to reserve associated deliverability for geothermal and wind. The bill would require the commission to designate energy-only resources as long lead-time resources for purposes of the ISO's scoring in its interconnection process, as specified. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by AB 2476 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2476 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 454.57 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by AB 2111 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2111 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Bill Text

• Enrolled 09/02/26 - Enrolled html September 02, 2026
• Amended 08/21/26 - Amended Senate html August 21, 2026
• Amended 08/13/26 - Amended Senate html August 13, 2026
• Amended 05/18/26 - Amended Assembly Current pdf May 18, 2026
• Amended 04/27/26 - Amended Assembly pdf April 27, 2026
• Amended 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly pdf March 19, 2026
• Introduced 02/19/26 - Introduced pdf February 19, 2026
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This bill amends 2 section(s) of the California codes: Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code; Section 454.57 of the Public Utilities Code.

• Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code

  twenty-first separate, megawatts and has been directly appropriated funding by the state before January 1, 2023. → SEC. 1.5. Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: (5) When requiring procurement pursuant to this subdivision, including, but not limited to, ad hoc procurement orders and programmatic requirements, the commission shall account for the ability of energy-only resources to achieve required clean energy deployment rates, to charge storage resources during off-peak periods, and to increase resource diversity, and shall enable energy-only resources to satisfy procurement requirements to the maximum extent feasible. 21st separate megawatts. all of

  amended

• Section 454.57 of the Public Utilities Code

  electric Record-setting proactively to load centers from expected locations for resource resource development, times. 454.53, beginning as soon as possible and not later than March 31, 2024, resources. The guidance shall include the allocation of those resources by region based on technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers. projections each year, annual 15 Division Code. (3) (1) (2) → SEC. 2.5. Section 454.57 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: electrical Record setting of resources to load centers, resource the times, while ensuring that associated costs are just and reasonable for ratepayers. (1) of Chapter 2.3 454.53, resources that takes into account uncertainty and optionality, is risk prudent, and supports compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders, including, but not limited to, FERC Order 1920, as later clarified by FERC Order 1920-A and FERC Order 1920-B, as applicable. (2) In developing the guidance pursuant to paragraph (1) the commission shall do all of the following:(A) Provide an allocation of the renewable energy and zero-carbon resources by region based on consideration of technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers.(B) Use methods that enable decisionmaking under uncertainty, such as robust optimization or stochastic optimization, to develop candidate near-term planning decisions.(C) Evaluate candidate planning decisions via a stress testing process through which the cost and reliability of the electrical system and the implications for future planning decisions and flexibility to support the resource portfolios are assessed, and, in a new or existing proceeding, examine the costs and risks of each candidate planning decision.(D) (i) Submit at least three resource portfolios to the Independent System Operator that are reflective of risk-prudent, near-term planning decisions and collectively representative of the range of resource procurement trajectories that could be necessary to reliably serve load across a range of plausible futures informed by planning uncertainties, to support the Independent System Operator’s compliance with the requirements of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 1920, as later clarified by FERC Order 1920-A and FERC Order 1920-B, as applicable.(ii) The commission shall provide the Independent System Operator with relevant load forecasts and resource availability assumptions for each resource portfolio submitted pursuant to clause (i).(E) Request that the Independent System Operator approve transmission projects that align with this guidance and that the commission finds to be reasonable in supporting any of the resource portfolios submitted pursuant to subparagraph (D).(F) Ensure that resource portfolios submitted to the Independent System Operator support resources identified as under contract in integrated resource plans submitted pursuant to Section 454.52 and the interconnection of resources of strategic importance to load-serving entities.(G) Include in this guidance any supplemental or accelerated transmission needs, beyond the requirements of an individual resource portfolio.(H) Implement this guidance in a manner that ensures rates remain just and reasonable, in accordance with Section 451.(3) The commission and Energy Commission shall identify cost-effective opportunities to enable planned or operating energy-only resources to obtain deliverability through transmission capacity expansions and shall request the Independent System Operator to reserve associated deliverability for geothermal and wind in the Independent System Operator’s balancing authority area for this purpose.(4) For purposes of the Independent System Operator’s scoring in its interconnection process, the commission shall designate energy-only resources as long lead-time resources, using criteria consistent with its designation of long lead-time deliverable resources, as applicable. projections, 20 the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division Code). of Chapter 2.3 is conducted in a cost-effective and risk-prudent manner and all of (3) Supporting the achievement of the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the go

  amended

Action History

1. September 08, 2026

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

2. August 28, 2026

   Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 6.).

3. August 27, 2026

   In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

4. August 27, 2026

   Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.).

5. August 24, 2026

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

6. August 21, 2026

   Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

7. August 17, 2026

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

8. August 13, 2026

   Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

9. August 13, 2026

   From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 13).

10. August 03, 2026

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

11. June 30, 2026

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

12. June 10, 2026

    Referred to Com. on E., U & C.

13. May 27, 2026

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

14. May 26, 2026

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 8.)

15. May 19, 2026

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

16. May 18, 2026

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

17. May 14, 2026

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (May 14).

18. May 14, 2026

    Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5030.)

19. May 13, 2026

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

20. April 28, 2026

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

21. April 27, 2026

    Read second time and amended.

22. April 23, 2026

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22).

23. March 23, 2026

    Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

24. March 19, 2026

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended.

25. March 19, 2026

    Referred to Com. on U. & E.

26. February 20, 2026

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.

27. February 19, 2026

    Read first time. To print.

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• Chris Rogers · Primary

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